Improvement in safety-pins



UNITED STATES PATENT CFFICE.

ABRAHAM'V. SARGEANT, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

lM PROVEMENT IN SAFETY-PINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,067, dated February 1,1876; application filed September 11, 1875. I

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ABRAHAMV. SARGEANT, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of 4 New Jersey, have invented an Improved Safety-Pin for Horse-Blankets, and other purposes;

4 and I do hereby declare that the following is one piece of Wire,

i at the head in a coil, B, and the wire continua full and exact description thereof, reference ing thence in a safety-shaft, O, nearly parallel with. the pin proper, and then terminating in a fastening-hook, D, formed by flattening the wire at that end, bending it at right angles to its shaft toward the point a of the pin, and finally having it bent and redoubled back parallel with itselt'nearly or quite even with the shaft, as shown at b. The point a of the pin, in fastening, is raised up over the end b of the I safety-hook and then it springs down into the bottom of 'the hook, where it is held with perfect security on account of the distance which the pin springs into the hook, being bent against its elasticity the whole depth of the hook, whereby it cannot be disengaged from the hook by any ordinary action or accident. The flattening of. the wire at the hook furnishes a perfect protection-t0 the point of the pin, shielded between the two sides there. v of. Not only does this construction of the.

pin withthe flattened Wire, hook-clasp D, and

thelongspring of the pin to clasp and unclasp it, produce a superior safety-pin, but the construction is exceedingly simple, cheap, and

durable. 1 v

I disclaim the construction described in the Letters Patent issued to E. H. Gaylord, and hearing date August 31st, 1875, No. 167,328, which does not fulfill the purposes of my invention, as herein set forth; a 7

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

" As a new article of manufacture, a safetypin constructed from a single piece of wire, consisting of the'pin part A, pointed at. its end, coiled spring B, and the shaft 0, having its end flattened and bent up to form the hook D, substantially as and for the purpose set forth., 7

ABRAHAM V. SARGEANT.

Witnesses F. GASTON, E. D. FARNSWORTH. 

